What do we do?

Selling We sell a wide range of fairly traded, high quality, unusual, foods, hampers, gifts, clothes & cards.

Events We host our own Fashion Show in Spring and Preview in Autumn and have stalls at many other events, including one at the lovely Oakham Castle.

Collection point We are a collection point for Store House (a food bank plus) & a delivery point for Christmas Gift Shoeboxes.

Melton Mowbray Fairtrade Borough group 3 of the 4 of us are on the Melton Mowbray Fairtrade Borough committee.

Who are we?

We have over 50 volunteers, who do regular or occasional sessions at the shop, check, price & display goods, stock count, clean, supply village shops, help at events and many other things.

Four very keen fair trade supporters oversee the business:

Polly covers anything financial & probably has the most headaches.

Karen buys all the food & makes beautiful hampers.

Helen, who has a good eye for fashion, buys all the clothes & cards & oversees window dressing, very often doing this herself.

Dolores who recently stepped down as a Director and continues to volunteer in the shop. Did the rota for 15 years, this job is now equitably distributed, what a relief!

And we must mention Lynn who was with us for 14 years (finances & food buying) until she left to go to university and remains a great supporter of the shop.

Opening Hours

Tuesday to Saturday 10-4